The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-10-20

ducks out OF the we'll when the child
rem threw them In, and ran after the
calves when the boys let them into
the COW pasture. -o-z E.
"When September came Baby was
at the city school. Dress her like
lady, said I, ard teach her all that
money can buy.
when / got back home sat down
and cried. tried to think it was be-
| cause / was so glad, but it seemed l
couJ Int live nine months without her.
| But presently news came from the
city Of how well she was doing, and
the, inathe lonesome days I'd think of
| her coming home, and what she would
| do, s nd if she would be much changed
| or d It, and SO the winter passed.
"lVelf, I needn't tell you of her
coming. She cried and I cried, and
it seemed never would get tired Of
| looking at her, so pretty she had grown
and trim and light. I wished that
boar 1ers would come some other time
so that could have her all the sum-
mer to myself. But I was busy again.
witE the summers work, nursing and
milking and cooking. September
came and she was away, and another
| year passed, and another, and another
till June was here and she was sixteen
and going to graduate.
"Father and | went down to hear
her read something before all the peo-
pie. for she was the smartest in her
class they said. We looked like
country folks, know, and We had
saved for her till our clothes were get.
ting pretty old and worn, and 1
says to father, says l, maybe we ought
not to come down here to make Baby
fesl ashamed before all the fine folks
and her young friends. But when
she saw US she Just ran out from the
girls and men who were around them
and threw her arms around his neck
and mine and cried and cried. Then
when she stood up TO- read and they
/ cheered her and she blushed and look
ed 80 pretty, and presently played
grand music and sang, 1 felt that it
was worth all my work hundred
times again.
Cali the money I had made was
spent, but / wanted piano for her to
play when she got home. The sum-
mer's work would pay for it and after
that I'd take no more boarders, but
give all my time to her. managed
it, and here it was in the old parlor
open and ready when she walked in.
"There were more boarders than
ever that summer, and my work was
harder, but the music keep me COM
pany. She came often TO help me, but
"mamma is ADLER than you Baby" I'd
say again, "and then you would
spoil your pretty dresses" And SO 1
learned to hum the tunes she sang for
the great folks in the parlor and keep
time with her in the Kitchen.
"I paid for the piano, but money
kept coming in, | couldn't turn the
people out you know. Well, said I,
it will make somebody happy one OF
these days, and thought what sort Of
man would ask for her, and what a
grand wedding I'd give them. All
the young people loved her, she was
80 bright and pretty, but the man she
would marry must be good and smart,
a man than people honored, and who
would love her, better for the mus
i; an all that she had learned. And
he n lst have home too, I thought
where she can live like lady, for she
had heen weakly always, and never
learned to work. And then I dream
ed OF all the happiness that might
come.
"One day in August father came in
and says to me, mother says he, 81
I AL -
,, Hodges to pack up his tricks and git ,
Claw" says I, '.father, what's h,
done p
"That's just it, said he, "he hahn
done nothing. He says he is book
agent and come here to sell books, ant
he's loafed around three montha
hanging on the corner o the ''pianny
, listening to Baby sing, and Baby say
! he don't know Aunt Betsey' from
Moses, or something like that. l dom
| like him noway."
! "Well, the way father said it sort 0
scared me, and my heart jumped.
You don't think nothing Z" said ]
: "Naw," says he, "an' Z don't wan
9 to think nothing. The fellew say
? himself he's got no EDICATIoN,s and
g know he's got nothing else, and he
lazy, good-for nothing and has n
a business hanging around Baby nc
u way" .aeb1as. ,4ssl
9 "That night I was sitting here alone
q wondering if my little girl would Civ
= her heart, her woman's life away, an
Q not let her old motherg know of VII.
q WAS going on, E Mss alone when th
q door opened and they came in han
T, in hand. Sc ss 81, y @ - go s.
n mo" For the first time ia m
life to her said No. i ..se Aaaa a
!" hen they had gone though
IT my heart would break. 1t seemed ,
e if all my hopes had come to nothing [
N know that she could love such thin
te as that and wished to marry him.
it man without learning or manners
d good looks, who could have told 4
ID difference if Baby had never heard
rs music nor seen q book. He wante
ii her because she was pretty, she love
j. him because q woman is such fool.
lie "Then thought that maybe I h.
rs talked too hard. Tomorrow / wou
ID draw her near me and If her heart ",
in set, might let the engagement star
i" awhile. A fewsmore days the boar
ut ers would be gone and when / cou
as have her with me her mind wau
IL change and she would see the foil
er The summer had been 90 busy, po